Where does Dwango Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dwango Co., Ltd. ranks #4,080 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Dwango Co., Ltd. hold?

Dwango Co., Ltd. holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Dwango Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Dwango Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dwango Co., Ltd. focus on?

Dwango Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 63 patents, ranking #786 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dwango Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dwango Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +610% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dwango Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Dwango Co., Ltd.'s patents average 11.4 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Dwango Co., Ltd. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Dwango Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dwango ranks #4,080 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 23 technology areas.

#4,080
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: +610%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4080 · Foreign Corporation #4,080 · 88 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,080/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Altman Specialty…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +610% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Altman Specialty Plants llc (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Dwango’s 48.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 15.5 pts (32%) Velocity 8.7 pts (18%) Breadth 17.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dwango · this assignee

48
IHC Holland IE B V · near

48
Longyear TM · near

48
Pcms Holdings · near

48
Rigel Pharmaceuticals · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dwango's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Dwango?

Each dot is one of Dwango’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Dwango’s own 11.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Dwango vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Dwango's grants concentrate

Dwango Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 71.6% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (24 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Dwango sits between Altman Specialty Plants llc and Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC.

Dwango's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dwango Co., Ltd. moved from 33 to 43 grants (1.30x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Altman Specialty…

88
American Air Liqu…

88
Blackhawk Network

88
Brady Worldwide

88
Derrick

88
Fositek

88
Glycom A/S

88
Georgia-pacific C…

88
Dwango ◀

88

What this shows Dwango holds 88 patents at rank #4,079, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dwango

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,079 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Dwango's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dwango, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Dwango ranks #786 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Pcms Holdings, Inc. 48 IHC Holland IE B.V. 48 Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 48 Longyear TM, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

Grammer AG 11.4 avg Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 11.4 avg Agco Corporation 11.4 avg Japan Display Inc. 11.4 avg

Dwango's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Dwango Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	3.4%
2017	1	1.1%
2018	1	1.1%
2019	5	5.7%
2020	4	4.5%
2021	24	27.3%
2022	13	14.8%
2023	9	10.2%
2024	21	23.9%
2025partial year	7	8.0%

Which technologies does Dwango Co., Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 63

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 53

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 31

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 8

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 2

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Dwango Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dwango Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 71.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,080 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dwango Co., Ltd. against Altman Specialty Plants llc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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